Voice signal encoding method, voice signal decoding method, and apparatus using same

• US 9,472,199 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2012
• Issued: 10/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Younghan, Jeong, Gyuhyeok, Kang, Ingyu, Jeon, Hyejeong, Kim, Lagyoung
• Primary Examiner(s): Desir, Pierre-Louis
• Assistant Examiner(s): KIM, JONATHAN C
• Application Number:
  US14/347,767
• Publication Number:
  US 20140236581A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,481 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/02 using spectral analysis, e.g. transform vocoders or subband vocoders
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/0212 using orthogonal transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/032 Quantisation or dequantisation of spectral components
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/24 Variable rate codecs, e.g. for generating different qualities using a scalable representation such as hierarchical encoding or layered encoding

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing a voice signal, and the voice signal encoding method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: generating transform coefficients of sine wave components forming an input voice signal by transforming the sine wave components; determining transform coefficients to be encoded from the generated transform coefficients; and transmitting indication information indicating the determined transform coefficients, wherein the indication information may include position information, magnitude information, and sign information of the transform coefficients.

Claims

1. A voice signal encoding method performed by an encoding apparatus, comprising:

receiving, by the encoding apparatus, an input voice signal;

generating, by the encoding apparatus, modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) coefficients of the input voice signal;

determining, by the encoding apparatus, target MDCT coefficients to be encoded out of the generated MDCT coefficients when a processing mode of the MDCT coefficients is a sinusoidal mode;

generating, by the encoding apparatus, index information indicating the target MDCT coefficients;

generating, by the encoding apparatus, a bitstream including the index information; and

transmitting, by the encoding apparatus, the bitstream,

wherein the index information includes a first index information and a second index information, and each of the first index information and the second index information includes position information, amplitude information, and sign information, wherein each of the first and second index information is associated with at least one of the MDCT coefficients in the target MDCT coefficients, and

wherein when the target MDCT coefficients to be encoded are a first MDCT coefficient and neighboring MDCT coefficients of the first MDCT coefficient, or a second MDCT coefficient and neighboring MDCT coefficients of the second MDCT coefficient, the position information of the first index information and the position information of the second index information indicate the same position, wherein the first MDCT coefficient comprises an MDCT coefficient having a maximum amplitude and wherein the second MDCT coefficient comprises an MDCT coefficient having a second maximum amplitude less than the maximum amplitude.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

estimating, by the encoding apparatus, a tonality of the MDCT coefficients based on correlation analysis between spectral peaks of current frame and past frame; and

determining, by the encoding apparatus, the processing mode of the MDCT coefficients as the sinusoidal mode when a value of the estimated tonality is above a predetermined reference value,

wherein the step of determining the target MDCT coefficients to be encoded includes;

determining, by the encoding apparatus, one of three combinations of the first MDCT coefficient and the second MDCT coefficient;

the first MDCT coefficient and the neighboring MDCT coefficients adjacent to the first MDCT coefficient; and

the second MDCT coefficient and the neighboring MDCT coefficients adjacent to the second MDCT coefficient to be the target MDCT coefficients to be encoded.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein a means square error (MSE) of the first MDCT coefficient and the second MDCT coefficient, an MSE of the first MDCT coefficient and the neighboring MDCT coefficients adjacent to the first MDCT coefficient, and an MSE of the second MDCT coefficient and the neighboring MDCT coefficients adjacent to the second MDCT coefficient are compared with each other and the combination of MDCT coefficients having a minimum MSE is determined to be the target MDCT coefficients to be encoded.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein a sum of residual coefficients of the first MDCT coefficient and the second MDCT coefficient, the a sum of residual coefficients of the first MDCT coefficient and the neighboring MDCT coefficients adjacent to the first MDCT coefficient, and a sum of residual coefficients of the second MDCT coefficient and the neighboring MDCT coefficients adjacent to the second MDCT coefficient are compared with each other and a combination of MDCT coefficients having a minimum sum of residual coefficients is determined to be the target MDCT coefficients to be encoded.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the neighboring MDCT coefficients adjacent to the first MDCT coefficient are excluded from the target MDCT coefficients to be encoded when signs of the neighboring MDCT coefficients adjacent to the first MDCT coefficient are not equal to each other, and the neighboring MDCT coefficients adjacent to the second MDCT the coefficient are excluded from the target MDCT coefficients to be encoded when signs of the neighboring MDCT coefficients adjacent to the second MDCT coefficient are not equal to each other.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of transmitting the index information includes transmitting information indicating a sign of the first MDCT coefficient to be encoded in regard to the signs of the target MDCT coefficients to be encoded.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the position information of the first index information and the position information of the second index information indicate the position of the first MDCT coefficient when the first MDCT coefficient and the neighboring MDCT coefficients adjacent to the first MDCT coefficient are determined to be the target MDCT coefficients to be encoded, and

wherein the position information of the first index information and the position information of the second index information indicate the position of the second MDCT coefficient when the second MDCT coefficient and the neighboring MDCT coefficients adjacent to the second MDCT coefficient are determined to be the target MDCT coefficients to be encoded.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the input voice signal belong to a super-wide band.

9. A voice signal decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus, comprising:

receiving, by the decoding apparatus, a bitstream including voice information;

reconstructing, by the decoding apparatus, target MDCT coefficients based on index information included in the bitstream when a processing mode of MDCT coefficients is a sinusoidal mode, wherein the index information indicates target MDCT coefficients

reconstructing, by the decoding apparatus, the MDCT coefficients based on the target MDCT coefficients;

performing, by the decoding apparatus, inverse modified discrete cosine transform (IMDCT) to the reconstructed MDCT coefficients to reconstruct the voice signal;

performing, by the decoding apparatus, post-processing on the reconstructed voice signal by filtering the reconstructed voice signal; and

transmitting, by the decoding apparatus, the post-processed voice signal,

wherein the index information includes a first index information and a second index information, each of the first index information and the second index information including position information, amplitude information, and sign information, and

wherein when the position information of the first index information and the position information of the second index information indicate a same position, the step of reconstructing the target MDCT coefficients includes reconstructing the target MDCT coefficients at the indicated position and positions adjacent to the indicated position.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the position information of the first index information and the position information of the second index information indicates a position of a first MDCT coefficient having a maximum amplitude in a track and a second MDCT coefficient having a second maximum amplitude in the track respectively, or duplicatively indicate the position of the first MDCT coefficient, or duplicatively indicate the position of the second MDCT coefficient.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the first MDCT coefficient and two neighboring MDCT coefficients adjacent to the first MDCT transform coefficient are reconstructed when the position information of the first index information and the position information of the second index information indicate the same position of the first MDCT coefficient, and

wherein the second MDCT transform coefficient and two neighboring MDCT coefficients adjacent to the second MDCT coefficient are reconstructed when the position information of the first index information and the position information of the second index information indicate the same position of the second MDCT coefficient.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the first MDCT coefficient and two neighboring MDCT coefficients adjacent to the first MDCT coefficient are reconstructed to have the same amplitude when the position information of the first index information and the position information of the second index information indicate the same position of the first MDCT coefficient, and

wherein the second MDCT coefficient and two neighboring MDCT coefficients adjacent to the second MDCT coefficient are reconstructed to have the same amplitude when the position information of the first index information and the position information of the second index information indicate the same position of the second MDCT coefficient.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the first MDCT coefficient and two neighboring MDCT coefficients adjacent to the first MDCT coefficient are reconstructed to have the same sign when the position information of the first index information and the position information of the second index information indicate the first the same position of the first MDCT coefficient, and

wherein the second MDCT coefficient and two neighboring MDCT coefficients adjacent to the second MDCT coefficient are reconstructed to have the same sign when the position information of the first index information and the second information of the second index information indicate the same position of the second MDCT coefficient.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the reconstructed voice signal is a super-wideband voice signal.